Being culturally responsive and building relationships with your ELL students
Know: Get to know your students. Find out what they are interested in, who their family is, and if they have any pets.
Appreciate: Bring their culture into the lessons whenever possible. Show them that their culture is important by having books and resources in their native language.
Comfortable: Make sure they feel safe.
How to incorporate your ELL students culture in the classroom community
There are several ways to incorporate your ELL students culture in the classroom. Depending on how well they speak English you and the other students can use Google Translate to make communication easier. To introduce the students to their new friends' culture you can use Youtube videos to show them some different things about their culture, just make sure to do your research. You want the videos to be appropriate and respectful of the student’s culture. Find books about the students' country, culture, and books in the students native language. You could also find photographs about where the students are from to help the students make connections.
Processing another language takes time so please be patient!
Ell students have to process what they are hearing in English, transfer what they have heard back to their native language, process what they have heard, come up with a response, and then transfer their response back to English. Give them time to process. Speak slowly and increase your wait time for expected responses. By doing this they will be more open in participation. Give them time to open up, do not force them to share because that could make them want to shut down.
QSSSA Strategy for ELL students
Question: Give the students a question to discuss.
Stem: Provide the students with a sentence stem to help them answer the question.
Signal: The students think individually, and signal when they are ready to share.
Share: Students get with a partner and share their answers.
Assess: Students can either share aloud or the teacher can walk around and listen.
Fair is NOT always equal
Your students are all different and all need to be supported in different ways. Support for ELL students might be different, but the need to be properly supported because we want all students in our classrooms to thrive.
Strive for equity not equality
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